‘The UK needs more POs’, says BelOrta
UK growers should group together and set up more producer organisations and cooperatives to give themselves greater bargaining power in the face of intense price pressure from their retail customers.
This was the message from Philippe Appeltans, the CEO of Belgian fruit and vegetable cooperative BelOrta, amid major shortages in a range of salad vegetables and other produce at UK

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